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Tortured genius had to be feeling pain
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anguished
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Word definitions for anguished in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
anguished \anguished\ adj. [p. p. from anguish .] suffering anguish; experiencing extreme pain, distress, or anxiety Syn: suffering, tormented
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Experiencing extreme discomfort or discontent. v (en-past of: anguish )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. experiencing intense pain especially mental pain; "an anguished conscience"; "a small tormented schoolboy"; "a tortured witness to another's humiliation" [syn: tormented , tortured ]
Usage examples of anguished.
She tried to speak, but the anguished murmuring of the dead swelled into a crescendo and swept her words away.
The sensation sent a jolt of anguished awareness coursing through his body.
As Rand dragged her across the room toward the other exit, Meriel shot an anguished glance back at Gage.
Gage shot him a furious, anguished look, but Meriel wasted no time in grasping his leg and pulling it straight.
The townspeople realized the fruit of the Norman labor and a low moan came to Wulfgar as their voices raised in anguished protest.
Aislinn closed her eyes and from between her grinding teeth an anguished moan escaped.
It had come, the moment of anguished realisation that he had foreseen for her, but it had come to her through love for another.
There was in her gesture an unconscious yearning, a mute and anguished appeal, as though from the oppressions of human character to the broad strength of nature, that was not lost on Delafield.
Ramona, with the same anguished look, convulsively holding both her hands in his.
What was he, the son, to find behind that secret door, at sight of which his mother had died with that look of anguished terror in her eyes?
Clearly, he now had not to be anguished, not to suffer passively, by mere reasoning about unresolva-ble questions, but to do something without fail, at once, quickly.
Quite unintentionally, he himself had been partly the cause of the murder, but only partly, and when he learned that he had given a pretext to the murderers, he became anguished, stupefied, began imagining things, went quite off his head, and convinced himself that he was the murderer!
Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .
Men died in the thousands, gasping, each breath more improbable than the last, at furnace air, sucking final moments of anguished, dreamlike life through throats of charred wood.
Esmenet knelt over her anguished face, and Kellhus stood above them, his expression watchful, wise, and sad.